Total drivel not making much sense.

Anyone care to paraphrase?

Is this not the second piece from the above to deride the Word's online community? I reckon he / she must be one of the disgruntled anti-clique.

Strange writing-style too.

Makes me feel sick, like when I try to read in a moving car.

Too many sentences that took up entire paragraphs.

'Maggoty Lamb' tends to come out with "oft-derided" articles like that, which is why he/she sticks to using a pseudonym, I suppose.

YDFMD

the frig was that all about? Say what you like about this blog, just say it well.

I liked that bit best.

anyway?

And some of the contributors on this site are not. That's fucked then isn't it?

... poor.

a non piece wasn't it? I read it twice and I still don't know what the point of the article is.

....about what really is a poor piece of writing, (engorged snake construction anyone?) I'd imagine that the people at Development Hell will appreciate the oxygen of publicity in any form it comes.
However, I'd take issue with his 'oft-derided forum' claim...
Does he mean 'twice-derided, by me, forum'?

to Pseuds Corner.

... as a direct attack of this blog, but "the online comment community" as a whole.

Has anyone ever seen them together in the same room at the same time?

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Who exactly is deriding us? I've never seen this site mentioned anywhere except the odd passing mentions on other forums and in Word-related publications.

We are Word Massive,
No-one likes us,
We don't care.
(or give a figurative toss)

as I honestly couldn't make head or tail of what he was saying. It read like gibberish to me.

Pseud's Corner?
If so, I have a contender

Of course, Stewart Lee would be unlikely to get people's names wrong for comic effect in one of the scrupulously scholarly Sunday Times record reviews that have established him as News International's leading authority on extemporised instrumentals.

Like being stuck on a train next to a man arguing about what to have for dinner with Alain De Boton.

However, the Stewart Lee piece (I understand he is uncontentiously adored on here) is one of the funniest pieces of writing about music I've ever read. It was Backwards 7 brilliant even though I had to google Ithell Coloqhoun and her magical goose.

Here it is:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/10/stewart-lee-damon-al...

Prose so artificially florid it smells like Impulse.

Just write what you bloody mean so we can all understand it, sunshine. Perhaps if more people did that there would be fewer vicious slaggings on the forums because we'd all have a clue what everyone else is on about.

when reading a virtually impenetrable piece like that, I instinctively assume that I'm simply not clever enough to understand it.

Even so, heavy-going or not, I didn't see much in it that warranted such an unfettered Lord Of The Flies-style feeding frenzy of personal abuse toward the writer.

inspired part of this "article" as the writer quotes this blog entry wot I wrote. Not one of my best, in fact reading it back it's a pile of shit but I never expected it to be part of a Guardian blog article otherwise I'd have tried harder.

For the record, when I used the abbreviation 'circs' I was aping Mark Ellen who occasionally uses the phrase 'reduced circs' on the Podcast when referring to former members of obscure Prog rock bands or members of China Crisis and I figured most readers would get the reference.
Quoted out of context on some Guardian blog thing it makes me sound like a bit of knob. I write better than Magotty Lamb though, and I got better comments than his or her article did so that's some consolation.

..would write better than magotty lamb.

must be writing for an exclusive/limited audience or constituency, in his or her mind. Either that or it is pure ego masturbation.

Isn't the whole point of communication to pitch your message at a level that can be understood by the largest audience possible?

I'm surprised that any sub-editor (if they still exist) let such a piece see the light of day unedited. Unless of course they wanted to see the writer make a fool of themselves.

Of course the whole thing could be 'ironic', or written to stimulate controversy, or an argument. Or just a personal message.

I thought he/she was just having some fun with the 'best sentence award' concept. Shows you what I know.

... fling this filth at our pop kids?

didn't want to do that

Maddening because its the only paper who's politics I agree with but - snide, materialistic, better-than-you urban smart-arsery is their stock in trade

the fact that some can be precious enough to get enraged over a poorly written piece on another blog is staggering.
Who cares?

No idea what most of that means. All very odd. Particularly laughable are the "unabashed idealism of the Corinthian enthusiast", and "we symbolically set aside any lingering unease..."

I do feel the need to point this out though - I think you'd find yourselves a little less "derided", if you'd all stop referring to yourselves as "The Massive". In the 90's that joke was funny, perhaps used by Ali G when referring to the inhabitants of Staines. But now all it tends to suggest, is a very large group of over 40's, perhaps with a weight problem. If you find the term "Massive" used in the Podcast, then can I make a suggestion that it may be used with the same double meaning? Just a vague possibility there folks, take it or leave it.

What pretentious wanky old toss that article was. No wonder it was written with a pseudonym. If I'd have turned in that edifice of guano I'd have slashed my wrists before a sub-editor had gotten their hands on it.

Still, helps to fill a website in silly season, innit?

...from someone with for shit for brains!

Unless.............tum, Tum, TUMMMMM, has anyone ever seen Maggoty Lamb and Danny Baker in the same room at the same time?

a word limit, a few commas and some full stops.

"That's the trouble with your game, boy. Not enough right handers dished out"

but i did used to read all of the sleevenotes on ztt records. Can still recite a few too (ducks).
Got a Raincoats T-shirt too...

Read all of 'the cappuccino kid' instalments.